Account-book.



M. P. EXLINE.

ACCOUNT BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED 050.27. 1916.

Patented Aug. 28, 1917.

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ACCOUNT-BOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2d, 1917.

Application filed December 27, 1916. Serial No. 139,168.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARCUS P. EXLINE, acitizen of the United States, residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Account-Books; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to account books, and more particularly to books of the type used by depositors and known as pass books.

The object of the present invention is to facilitate the identification of pass books and to expedite the keepin of accounts by enabling the cashier, or boo eeper, or other clerk concerned, to readily identify the book of the depositor or other owner and thereby more readily post the entries from one book to another in keeping accounts.

Particularly the present invention consists in a pass book of the type used by bank depositors in which there is provided a suitable backing foldable along a central line from top to bottom, and between the back sections of which there is inclosed a foldable sheet forming fly leaves, the upper portion of which is adapted to receive suitable data as the bank book number, or the name of the bank, or the name of the depositor, and especially consists in providing a book of this type in which the leaves intermediate the fly leaves are of less length for a portion of their area than the length of the fly leaves, yet are so designed as to be of substantially full length with the fly leaf at a central portion along which the books are folded and at which the several superposed leaves are secured to the book, the shortening of the intermediate leaves within the fly leaves providing for the constant exposure of the legend on the inside pages of the front and back fly leaves.

In the following specification and in the drawing an embodiment of the present invention is described and illustrated. In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the open pass book, and

Fig; 2 is a perspective view of the closed pass book looking at the front cover portion.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the pass book comprises a suitable backing 2, preferably of flexible material which may be covered on its exterior or outer surface by a leather or other appropriate cover 3. The backing 2 with its cover is adapted to be folded on a median line from the top to the bottom, and within the folded back-forming portions there is superposed a sheet 4, which, when folded along the median line, forms front and rear fly leaves 5 and 6. The first sheet 4 may be of an area substantially co-extensive with that of the backing, but this is not important as the width or length of the first sheet forming the fly leaves may vary as circumstances and conditions may require.

The fly leaves 5 and 6 may be provided upon their outer pages with a suitable legend or data, and preferably their inner and 0p posite pages are ruled to provide for. the proper 'columnizing of an account, and also at the top are provided with a blank space 5 and 6 for the reception of any suitable data or legend as may be desired, such, for

instance, as the number of the account book, or the name of the bank, or the name of the owner of the bank book, etc. It is one of the particular objects of the present invention to provide for the ready identification of the book when it is presented to the cashier or when it comes into the possesison of any of the clerks having to do with the account,

' whereby, immediately upon the opening of the book, the clerk concerned has at once disclosed to view the name or other suitable identification media of the account. It has heretofore been proposed to use leaves intermediate the fly leaves of thepass book for the entry of items, which leaves were shorter than the length of the fly leaves, thus leaving these latter exposed above the top edge of the inner account or entry leaves of the books, and thus disclosing the legend at the top portion, for instance 5 and 6. In such case the intermediate leaves of the book between the fly leaves were fastened centrally from their top edge to the bottom edge to the backing and fly leaves, the fastening terminating at the top of the intermediate leaves and not extending along the upwardly projecting or extending portion of the fly leaf sheet. My present invention is particularly designed to secure a stiffening and strengthening of theback structure by providing that the fastening means, such, for instance, as stitching 7, may be continued or extended entirely from the top edge to the bottom edge of the superposed sheets forming thelfly leaves and the intermediate leaves of the book.

In accomplishing this I provide intermediate entry leaves 8 formed of sheets of superposed paper laid upon the fly leaves or first sheet and stitched to the fly sheet and the lining or backing member by the line of stitching 7 though other means of fastening may be utilized if preferred. The sheets of which the leaves 8 are formed have a central length equal to the length of the sheet 4 from top to bottom, and the upper and laterally extending portion of each leaf 8 is cut away as indicated at the line 9 to so shorten each leaf 8 as to expose the data at the portions 5 and 6 on the inner faces of the fly leaves. This cutting away at the line 9 of the entry leaves 8 leaves an upwardly extending tongue or stitching portion 10 which provides means overlapping the central portion of the first sheet 4 and extending upwardly to the top edge thereof through which the stitching 7 may be applied to secure the several superposed entry leaves 8 to the fly leaves 5 and 6 and also to the backing 2;

In the form of the invention here illustrated the stitching 7 passes through the several superposed leaf-formin sheets along the central line thereof and rom the top to the bottom ofthe book, and secures the leaves to the backing 2, and the seam or stitching is covered by the outer covering 3 extending across the outer surface of and secured to the backing 2.

Preferably the backing sheet 2 of the book is of a substantial, durable material having one of its faces treated or adapted to receive ink or other media by which thename of the owner of the book or other suitable information may be formed on or applied to its outer surface at an area indicated at 2 to be exposed through a window 3' formed at a suitable location in the covering material 3. This provides for the protection of the name applied to the portion 2 exposed through the window 3 of the book, and prevents it from bein worn off by use of the book, and yet enab es it to be readily observed by those having to handle the pass book.

From the foregoing it will be seen that I have provided a method of manufacturing pass books in which the book structure is strengthened and reinforced by extending the intermediate item or entry sheets forming the leaves 8 entirely from the'top to the bottom of the book at the central portion thereof and along the fold line so that the stitches may be contained from top to bottom of the book. It is understood that the outline or formation of the upwardly extending tongue portion 10 may be varied at will and that the depth of the recess back to the line 9 or to the top edge of the intermediate leaves 8 maybe varled at will according to the different purposes-or objects in view in manufacturing the book;

What I claim as new is:

A bank pass book having a foldable cover and an entry sheet, or sheets, foldable an stitched at the fold to the back, each sheet having in the line of the fold and stitching an extension at the top thereof forming a reinforce through which the upper part of each sheet is stitched above the top edge of the sheet to the top of the book, the shorter portions of the leaves forming space's'for disclosing superjacent matters.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARCUS P. EXLINE.

F Witnesses:

H. J. BOEDEFELD, R. H. HARRIS. 

